Coming next:
- Attach multiple files (or a folder) to a student’s lesson so that it creates an Attachments or Playlist entity in the lesson.
- Receive push notifications when chat messages within MetaPractice are received.
- Define what day of the week each student normally has their lesson on, and view student list sorted by lesson day
- Built-in metronome
1.1.7: Improved Experience
- When creating events, the “Specify Time” option now appears before the date picker, allowing you to set both date and time in one go for a seamless workflow.
- Student practice time history is now sorted chronologically, from oldest to newest, for better tracking.
- Renamed “Login Details” to “Account” for clarity.
- Improved the Assign Event interface with a new Select All button, a Cancel button, and fixed the issue where the last student was obscured by the Assign button.
- Creating new students is now faster with fewer screens, getting you back to teaching in no time.
- Enhanced web interface: Clicking and dragging is now more as you’d expect—no more long-clicking required.
- Dragging events in the Goalbook is easier—click anywhere on the title bar to move events effortlessly.
- Fixed some text display issues and a typo.
- Resolved an issue where the “Assign Event” feature didn’t work for all students.
- Fixed a rare bug that caused goals to appear greyed out when editing a student’s Goalbook.
1.1.6: Many fixes
- Postponed student practice sessions are now automatically discarded if the student receives a new lesson before the postponed practice session can be completed.
- Event times are now chosen and displayed in civilian/standard format instead of military time.
- When assigning events to students, there is now a single option to select all students.
1.1.5: Minor changes
- When assigning an Event to a long list of students, the last student was not selectable since an overlaying button covered it up.
- In some cases, a non-completed goal showed “Complete” and couldn’t be undone.
1.1.4: Web official release, student account control
- Official release: MetaPractice for web no longer in beta version! This will allow users to use MetaPractice with their PCs, Macs and even iPads (using their iPad browser) or Android (again using the Android device’s browser)
- Improved student connection: a teacher will be able to add new students before students have created accounts yet. Teachers and students will also be able to connect via QR codes.
- Minor improvements/tweaks to Repertoire List (sorting and interface), password reset, template interface, login/sign up experience, goal sorting (media appears first), succinct infographics to help new users
- Many small bug fixes
1.1.3: Web BETA, practice routine fixes
- Released MetaPractice web BETA version
- Fixed some additional edge case issues with students’ practice routine, visible with “Simulate Practice” feature in teacher app
1.1.1, 1.1.2: Practice routine bug fixes
- Fixed multiple issues affecting students’ practice routines, especially on the iPad.
1.1.0: New practicing interface, Import and export templates, print goalbook pages, toggle student view, new notifications area
- Dramatically improved practice interface for students (teachers can Simulate Practice within the teacher app)
- Import and export templates using tab-delimited text (.txt) files, allowing teachers to quickly construct assignment templates and share them with other teachers.
- Download a sample template that demonstrates by example how easy it is to build a template.
- Templates UI now has the same folder/subfolder system used with the media library.
- Print out any page of a student’s goalbook for students who want printed goals each week.
- Students screen: toggle between Card view and new List view
- Improvement to media library interface (“Add” button has more intuitive options)
- New notification area to show events such as student connection and disconnection
1.0.11: Profile Picture bug fix
- Profile picture wasn’t uploading
1.0.10: New Goals bug fix
- Bug fix: new goals weren’t showing in the lesson in certain cases
1.0.09: Greatly improved media interface, M4A support, attach notes to categories & subcategories
- Improved media interface – got rid of Audio/Video/Image/PDF pop-up options when tapping on bottom Media button – now Media button just takes the teacher directly to the library.
- Tapping on the media file you want adds the file to the goalbook (previously, tapping on a media file just displayed the file and you had to use its overflow options to add it to the goalbook).
- Attach media files to categories and subcategories too (not just to goals) by tapping on overflow options of those categories and subcategories.
- Notes can now also be attached to categories and subcategories, not just goals.
- Support for M4A audio in media library
- Show/Hide advanced goal options for teachers who just want to use MetaPractice’s most basic assignment features so that MetaPractice’s robust, powerful awesomeness doesn’t intimidate some first-time users
- Removed small print goal evaluation numbers in the upper left corner of category and subcategory headings (these were confusing and never used – they used to count how many goals below hadn’t been evaluated yet).
- “Add Subcategory” button is now indented to make intended structure more clear.
- Collapsed categories arrow now points up instead of left.
1.0.08: Event reports
- Teachers can bring up an event and display a report that shows all pieces being played in the event, a super useful tool for typing recital programs
- There is now a Notifications area in the upper left corner
- Bug fixes: Multiple file upload timeout, elapsed time since last practice was displaying time since last lesson instead, sorting goals in reverse order sometimes did not work
1.0.07: Repertoire list, startup tips
- Repertoire list pieces can now be sorted by date, display format of dates changed
- Startup tips can now be disabled in Settings
- Fixed bugs: Phone ringer off prevented audio from playing, couldn’t reposition audio playback while paused, couldn’t drag and drop subcategory into a category with existing entries, 26 other minor cosmetic and functional fixes
1.0.06: Events and other tweaks
- Teachers can add an event (class, recital, festival, competition, etc.) and specify which students will be participating in it. The event will show up automatically in students’ practice routine. Pieces (with their assigned goals) can be dragged into the event so that students know what pieces (and in what order) they’ll be playing in the event.
- Disable startup tips option added
- Repertoire pieces are now sorted by completion date, dates are now shown as YYYY-MM
- Goal options (spot, spread, etc.) now wrap instead of requiring horizontal scrolling
- Bug fixes: 28 miscellaneous fixes and tweaks
1.0.05: Quick-create goals, media library multiple file upload
- QUICK CREATE GOALS! Long-tap on the “Add Goal” button to bring up a customizable list of commonly added goals. Default goals are begin, do, finish, maintain, memorize, number measures, and secure. “Do” and “number measures” are automatically designated Once goals.
- Ability to upload multiple files at once into the media library
- Goal, subcategory and category inputs are now multiple-line inputs instead of single-line input.
- Ability to save photos/videos onto the device from the chat interface
- Media is now auto-deleted from the chat interface after 30 days
- Improved Name / Profile / Avatar settings interface
- When adding notes and/or media to the lesson, auto-scroll effect added so the user is taken to the bottom of the goalbook to see where the new item was added
- Bug fix: “Note to student” / “Note to self” labels weren’t updating after notes were edited
- Bug fix: multiple tooltips were displaying at once.
- Improved email communication with new subscribers
- Other minor cosmetic tweaks, back-end maintenance and edge case bug fixes
1.0.04: Improved help pages, handling of media library file deletion
- Improved Help pages with YouTube videos
- Handling of media library file deletion when files are attached to students’ practice routines
1.0.03: Media library improvements
- Media library is stored in cloud instead of on the local device.
- Added support for importing MP3 audio from iCloud Drive to media library
- Added ability to move media library files into different folders
- Bug fix: new files added to media library always go into the root folder even when positioned in a subfolder
1.0.02: Subscription & payments
- 1.02: Fixed subscription bug
- 1.01: Tested & tweaked payment processing system
- 1.00: First official release
1.0.01: Routine updates
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Coming soon:
- Receive push notifications when chat messages within MetaPractice are received.
- Built-in metronome
1.1.7: Improved Experience
- The idle timer now asks whether to Keep or Discard practice time after long pauses, replacing the confusing “Cancel or Discard” prompt for a more straightforward experience.
- In Advanced mode, categories with multiple subcategories are now cleaner—main categories display only once above their subcategories, reducing clutter in your practice routine.
- Fixed a rare bug where subcategories were occasionally omitted during practice, ensuring you always see the full details of your routine (main category, subcategory, and goal).
- Goal scores are no longer truncated on narrow screens, so you can view your progress clearly.
- The term “Goal Guidance” now wraps properly on skinny screens, ensuring all text is fully visible.
- Fixed a critical issue in the web version where Chrome users on Android encountered a grey screen of death, which could result in lost practice progress. Now, your practice sessions are more stable and secure.
1.1.6: Many fixes
- In some rare cases in beginner/skilled mode, the screen would sometimes advance to the next practice step when it shouldn’t.
- Postponed student practice sessions are now automatically discarded if the student receives a new lesson before the postponed practice session can be completed.
- A stand-alone note (not attached to any category, subcategory, or media file) was not showing up in the practice routine.
- In Beginner and Skilled mode, sometimes, the “Continue” button was missing from a practice step after a student resumed a previously postponed practice session.
- Sometimes an archived repertoire piece was still showing up in the practice routine.
- Event times are now chosen and displayed in civilian/standard format instead of military time.
1.1.5: Minor changes
- An Event containing empty categories/subcategories (with no goals, media, notes, etc. attached to them) did not show up in the practice routine.
1.1.4: Web official release, student account control
- Official release: MetaPractice for web no longer in beta version! This will allow users to use MetaPractice with their PCs, Macs and even iPads (using their iPad browser) or Android (again using the Android device’s browser)
- Improved student connection: a teacher will be able to add new students before students have created accounts yet. Teachers and students will also be able to connect via QR codes.
- Minor improvements/tweaks to Repertoire List (sorting and interface), password reset, template interface, login/sign up experience, goal sorting (media appears first), succinct infographics to help new users
- Many small bug fixes
1.1.3: Web BETA, additional practice routine bug fixes
- Released MetaPractice web version
- Fixed some additional edge case issues with students’ practice routine
1.1.1 and 1.1.2: Practice routine bug fixes
- Fixed multiple issues affecting students’ practice routines, especially on the iPad.
1.1.0: SIGNIFICANTLY improved practice interface!
- SIGNIFICANTLY improved practice interface that includes animations, shows the student the same goalbook structure that the teacher sees, decreases the number of taps required to go from one goal to the next, and is more compact (a lot less scrolling in Advanced mode)
- New notification area to show events such as student connection and disconnection
1.0.11: Profile Picture bug fix
- Bug fix: profile picture wasn’t uploading
1.0.10: Bug fix - new goal wasn't showing in the lesson
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1.0.09: Support for M4A audio
- Support for M4A audio to be attached to the goalbook
1.0.08: Notifications
- MetaPractice now has a Notifications area in the upper left corner
1.0.07: Startup tips can be disabled
- Startup tips can be disabled
1.0.06: Events
- When a teacher creates an event and indicates which students are participating in that event and which pieces the students are playing, students will see a special screen during their practice routine indicating which pieces will be played in that event.
1.0.05: Practice stats now always show for students
- Times practiced, minutes practiced, and hours since last practice stats are now always available for the student to see on their teacher card
- Multiple students in the same household can now use the same device with minimal effort to log out and log back in (uses iOS feature to store and enter passwords within MetaPractice)
- Ability to save photos/videos onto the device from the chat interface
- Improved Name / Profile / Avatar settings interface
- Media is now auto-deleted from the chat interface after 30 days
- Bug fix: When students are away for 500 or 1000 minutes and comes back to MetaPractice, MetaPractice asks the student if they would like to discard those minutes. When the student chooses “discard,” MetaPractice wasn’t discarding the minutes.
- Other minor cosmetic tweaks and edge case bug fixes
1.0.04: Help pages, YouTube videos, communication mechanism, repertoire list
- Improved Help pages with YouTube videos, added communication mechanism so that we can convey very important updates to teachers and/or students upon launching the app, added ability for students to add, edit or delete repertoire pieces if the teacher enables it in Repertoire List settings.
1.0.03: Media library improvements
- Media library is stored in cloud instead of on the local device.
- Added support for importing MP3 audio from iCloud Drive to media library
- Added ability to move media library files into different folders
- Bug fix: new files added to media library always go into the root folder even when positioned in a subfolder
1.0.03 – 1.00: Repertoire list
1.03: Bug fix – student was sometimes prompted to practice the same repertoire pieces each day instead of rotating them.
1.00 – 1.02 – Various trivial updates